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Architecture

Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction

Glauser Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones

More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...

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Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Garrido Marco Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...

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America

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Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

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Europe

Criminology

Vory Russia's Super Mafia

Galeotti Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...

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Women Studies

Sport

Half Marathon A Complete Training Guide for Women

Galloway Barbara, Galloway Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9781782551645, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2019
216 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 70 colour and black&white illus.

"Half Marathon: A Complete Training Guide for Women" is a must-have for adult women of any age at any fitness level who want to train for a half marathon. Using Jeff Galloway's proven Run Walk Run method, this book offers a step-by-step program for w...

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Women Studies

Sport

Women's Complete Guide to Running

Galloway Jeff, Galloway Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781782551485, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2018
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 50 colour and black&white illus.

This is the book that will take any woman, at any fitness level, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered duri...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Women Working Longer Increased Employment at Older Ages

Goldin Claudia, Katz Lawrence F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226532509, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 line drawings, 70 tables

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...

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Jewish Studies

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Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Goldberg Chad Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...

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Law

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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law

Goldfeder Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...

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